Forbidden City Ticket/ The Palace Museum or Group Tours Options
Overview
Available languages
Mobile ticket
There are a hundred Forbidden Cities in a hundred eyes.
Visit the world's largest wooden royal building complex, the Forbidden City in Beijing. The pre-booked tickets can ensure entry at the planned time and allow you to visit the Forbidden City according to your own wishes. The tickets are divided into morning tickets and afternoon tickets.
The newly added option departing from Beijing Capital Airport/Hotel one way can accept your last-minute booking on the same day, and your driver will take you to the entrance of the Forbidden City to ensure that you can enter smoothly.
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
The morning tickets are only valid before 12:00 noon, and the afternoon tickets only allow entry into the Forbidden City after 11:00 am. Please enter the Forbidden City according to the reserved time. If you miss the reserved time or the reserved date, you will not be allowed to enter, and cancellation and refund will not be available.
Please provide the passport numbers, names and nationalities of all participants. Your passport will be verified on the day of entry into the Forbidden City.
Children over 120 cm are required to purchase adult tickets, and those under six years old are exempt from tickets.
This product is a pre-booking service. If the reservations for tickets to the Forbidden City are full, we will cancel the orders seven days in advance and issue a full refund.
Reservation for Tiananmen Square, each participant has to provide five specific pieces of information: name, nationality, gender, age, and mobile phone number."
For guaranteed access into the museum, Chinese citizens are advised to purchase admission tickets through the Wechat official mini-program using their ID card.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Admission E Ticket of Forbidden City(Passport is your E ticket, Not Tiananmen Square Ticket)
Additional entrance fee to other museums in FC
Hotel pickup&drop off
What To Expect
Forbidden City-The Palace Museum
Palace Museum Ticket Options Visitors can only enter from the south gate (Meridian Gate) and leave from the north gate (Shenwu Gate), Please bring the passport you used go directly to the Meridian Gate of the Palace Museum. Scan your passport to enter the Palace Museum without a tour guide. Options with a Tour Guide Please arrive at the meeting point on time. The guide will accompany you to the Meridian Gate entrance. guide will explain the stories behind the Palace Museum about 2 of traditional Chinese architecture and the last emperor, and stop at several best photo - taking spots for taking pictures. Tiananmen Square Ticket Options There are 4 entrances to the square, the northeast entrance, which is close to Wangfujing; Morning tickets from 7:00 am to 12:00, and afternoon tickets from 12:00 to 17:00. You can walk here to the Meridian Gate of the Palace Museum. This is a one - way walking from south to north,
Options
Tiananmen Square Ticket only
entrance time: morning ticket from 8 to 11:59 am. afternoon ticket from 12 to 5 pm
gg: Please queue up at any of the 4 security checkpoints in the east, south, west or north to enter Tiananmen Square
Forbidden City Ticket Only
Forbidden City Ticket: Please bring your passport and directly queue up at the security check at the South Gate of the Forbidden City to enter.
Duration: 2 hours
Forbidden City ticket only: Morning ticket : 8:30am to 12 PM. Afternoon ticket: 11 am to 3:30 pm.
Your passport is your E Ticket, no tour guide
2 Hours Group tour with guide
Duration: 2 hours
Forbidden city tour with Guide: 2 hours group tour with guide, Meeting point at Lego Store Wangfujing ,Jinyuhutong station Exit C subway 8（金鱼胡同地铁站C出口）
Reviews
12 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Forbidden City
Susan L,
Jun 18, 2025
- Viator
3.00Guide was absolutely wonderful but Viator didn’t say that most of the buildings were closed for renovations.
Nice
SandraIoana P,
May 7, 2025
- Viator
5.00We booked this expecting a just the ticket of the Forbidden City but unfortunately the tickets ended very early so they advised us to buy a tour...it costed a little bit more and I must say not everything went super good because they made us wait to get the tickets checked for almost two hours but I get it, the crowd. Watever, the tour was worth it, Tina was so nice, helpful and explained us everything so super happy of her! She made the trip much funnier and happier. Thank you!
Hidden joy
Lilian F,
Oct 12, 2023
- Viator
5.00Fantastic place and a wonderful guide! Thanks for a wonderful time, specially for showing me and my kids, a little more about China
Great organising, securing tickets when no other provided would, they gave us a long and insightful tour.
Georgios K,
Sep 9, 2023
- Viator
5.00We managed to get a booking when every other option did not have available tickets so huge thumbs up there. Mike responded instantly and answered any question we had. Demi was a great your guide, shared very interesting insights about the history of the forbidden city, she was super friendly and nice and she even provided her raincoat for my partner to wear as it was pouring down heavily. I recommend this tour with no hesitation.
I have lived in Beijing for over...
Polly C,
May 25, 2018
- Viator
5.00I have lived in Beijing for over five years and am fluent in Chinese. When people come to visit me, I feel obligated to take them on a Hutong tour. I was very wary of going on this tour as I have gone on a few others before. My experiences were: tour guide no-shows, eating at common restaurants, or flat-out lies. I finally went with my gut in choosing this tour rather than going with the more reknowned agencies for my visiting mother-in-law, and was not let down like I had been in the past.
Somehow this tour taught me so much about the Hutongs and Forbidden City than I had ever even imagined. The tour guide was phenomenal. She had a PhD in Beijing HuTong life. This was a truly vivid learning experience. The most amazing part of the day was that I actually never tried, nor even heard of, any of the food on this tour. This is truly a worthwhile experience for anyone that wants to see the true Beijing cliches aside.
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